Momofuku Ando, founder of Nissin foods and inventor of instant noodles has died after 96 years in the service of His Noodliness. Ando-san will be wafted into the Touch of His Noodly Appendage doubtless to take a place at the head of the line for the Beer Volcano.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster places the noodles on the plate. The Flying Spaghetti Monster sops up the last of the sauce. Starchy and meatballed is the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

Dear Bobby,It is with the utmost despair that I inform you of the death of one of our Noodley Master's profits(http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070107a2.html).He lived a long life, and managed to spread the message to many a new convert, but he will always be missed by Pastafarians like you and me.Here's to the Ramen King.....